content-research-brief SKILL.md skillA
content-research-brief from affitor/affiliate-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add affitor/affiliate-skills/content-research-brief@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- affitor/affiliate-skills
- Path
skills/content/content-research-brief/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Apr 3, 2026
- Size
- 16,741 bytes
- Repository stars
- 774
- License
- MIT
Research trending topics, collect source articles, and generate a structured research brief for content creation. Stop writing from thin air — write from real sources. Use this skill when the user wants to research a topic before writing, collect sources for an article, create a research-backed content brief, or says "research [topic] for me", "find sources about [keyword]", "content brief for [topic]", "what's the latest on [product]", "research before writing…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Content Research Brief Research a topic by collecting 5-10 real source articles, auto-tagging them by theme, extracting key data points, and synthesizing unique content angles. The output is a structured research brief that any downstream content skill can consume. **The problem this solves:** Most AI-written affiliate content is generic because it's written from the model's training data — not from real, current sources. This skill forces research-first content creation: find real articles, extract real data, then write from those sources. The result is content with specific stats, real quotes, and current information that readers (and Google) actually value. Inspired by the [content-pipeline](https://github.com/Affitor/content-pipeline) approach: Topic → Search → Select sources → Synthesize → Write with context. ## Stage This skill belongs to Stage S2: Content — but acts as the research foundation for all content skills. ## When to Use - Before writing any article, blog post, or long-form content - When you need current data and stats about a topic (not just AI-generated claims) - When creating comparison content (need real feature/pricing data from sources) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add affitor/affiliate-skills/content-research-brief@sha256:c7e41b3abe6fd0f8The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Apr 3, 2026.
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Source
affitor/affiliate-skills · 774 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7wrjkntpgtvttm6p GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=affitor/affiliate-skills/content-research-brief GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c7e41b3abe6fd0f872765cdc06a181f8b8fdb21b79906a47cf11610a26a5d598
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